Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party color) and gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for Ceylon!" Another antigovernment candidate derided the "socalled golden brains" of Madame Bandaranaike's Marxist Cabinet members and said they were "full of cow dung...
...Ceylonese love political oratory and revel in elections, they are not very good at issuing a mandate. Last week's election was no exception. In the voting for 151 parliamentary seats, Madame's Freedom Party took a bad beating. Though carrying her own constituency, she and her Marxist allies could muster only 55 seats. Dudley Senanayake's U.N.P. captured 66 seats, an impressive advance but still not enough to form either a majority or a government...
...with the 14-seat Federal Party, which represents the Tamil-speaking minority who work the island's tea plantations. Thousands of leftists swarmed in the road outside Temple Trees, the Prime Minister's official residence, shouting, "Victory!" and "Don't resign!" At the insistence of her Marxist Cabinet ministers, the buxom Prime Minister stoutly clung to power, even after Governor General William Gopallawa asked her to quit. But at last she caved in, and victory went to Dudley Senanayake after midnight of the third day. Wreathed in smiles, he called on the Governor General, bearing a letter...
...leaders of Russia, sneered the Chinese, were "selling horse meat as beefsteak, displaying a lamb's head while actually selling fillet of dog." In Mao Tse-tung's somewhat mixed-up butcher-shop imagery, that meant that the Red meat of true Marxist-Leninism was still being supplanted by goulash a la Khrushchev...
...elections were do or die in the truest sense. In his presidential campaign last summer against Communist-backed Salvador Allende, Frei promised voters a long list of desperately needed economic and social reforms. Partly because of his personal appeal and partly because of widespread distaste for the Marxist Allende, Frei rolled up the largest plurality in Chilean history. Yet in office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage of a single major bill. In the congressional campaign, Frei...